script kiddie

a.k.a. script kiddie

An unskilled hacker who uses programs and exploits written by others.

Slang for people who find tools on the Internet and use those tools to attack computer systems. A script kiddie is a person who seeks out a technology weakness over the Internet, in order to gain access to a computer system, without really understanding what he or she is exploiting because the weakness was discovered by someone else. In other words, script kiddies are not very technologically sophisticated and they do not randomly look to target specific information or a specific company, but rather use knowledge of a known vulnerability to scan the entire Internet for a victim that possesses that vulnerability.

Historical perspective: You would be amazed at how many people actually do this kind of thing just because they can.

See also : cracker  
NetLingo Classification: Online Jargon